Summer Camps

COWPOKES

PI – Borowczak | Summer 2018

A NSF and NSA funded cybersecurity camp called COWPOKES is Wyoming’s cybersecurity camp champion. With 10 teachers and 60 students in two locations, Laramie and Riverton, the camp branched focus on key cybersecurity principles (outlined by the NSA). It was focused on computer science as much than programming in the cybersecurity realm. The K-12 teachers created K-12 lessons that incorporated computer science and cybersecurity into their classrooms in a variety of subjects.

TACOS

PI – Burrows | Summer 2015, 2106, 2017, 2018, 2019

TACoS V will be June 10-14, 2019. A sign up link is coming early February!

The Artful Craft of Science (TACoS) is a summer camp that has been in operation since the summer of 2015. Sponsored by MilliporeSigma, 30-40 students take part in a free, one-week camp each year, and focus on student-centered scientific work in chemistry, art, computer science, microbes, and civil engineering.